This week news that the Pentagon was moving to rename several ships named for civil rights leaders served as a reminder to San Diego's LGBTQ+ community that it's still in a fight for equality, leaders said at a news conference Friday.

First on the chopping block — the USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy supply ship named for the slain politician.

"Something is really wrong in America," said Nicole Murray-Ramirez, a longtime San Diego LGBTQ+ activist. "This is much more than trying to remove the name of Harvey Milk."

Murray-Ramirez knew Milk, the first openly-gay man elected to office in California. He said Friday the effort to strike Milk's name from the vessel — coupled with the new ban on transgender service members — is part of a broader effort by the Donald Trump administration to erase LGBTQ+

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